Hungarian Socialists Urge Penal Code Amendment Over Terrorist Threat

  • 24 Nov 2015 3:00 AM
Hungarian Socialists Urge Penal Code Amendment Over Terrorist Threat
The opposition Socialist Party has proposed changes to the penal code to introduce sanctions for such activities as the promotion of terrorism. The draft, presented by Socialist deputy group leader Tamás Harangozó at a press conference, would also criminalise joining terrorist groups or recruiting members for them.

If parliament passed the proposal into law, foreign perpetrators of terrorist acts could be tried and imprisoned in Hungary.

Zsolt Molnár, Socialist head of parliament’s national security committee, who attended the press conference, urged that Hungary’s counter-terrorism agencies should be reinforced, and proposed setting up a European military and secret services.

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